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The Course Descriptions catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Michigan State University. The searches below only return course versions Fall 2000 and forward. Please refer to the Archived Course Descriptions for versions prior to Fall 2000.

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MTH 918  Number Theory I

Semester:
Fall of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite:
MTH 819 or approval of department
Description:
Number fields and algebraic integers, prime ideals and factorization, cyclotomic fields, the class group, the Dirichlet unit theorem, different, discriminant, decomposition and inertia groups, local fields.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open


MTH 918  Number Theory I (Interim Change)

Semester:
Fall of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
Prerequisite:
MTH 819 or approval of department
Restrictions:
Open to graduate students in the Applied Mathematics Major or in the Industrial Mathematics Major or in the Mathematics Major or approval of department.
Description:
Number fields and algebraic integers, prime ideals and factorization, cyclotomic fields, the class group, the Dirichlet unit theorem, different, discriminant, decomposition and inertia groups, local fields.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open